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I'm sure the album will be top 5 tho.

Does anybody know if Lily Allen's "The Fear" was nominated? The "nominations" thread is making my browser crash, as soon as I open it... Anyway, I didn't get to vote this time but "The Fear" would've been my # 1.

2009 singles weren't eligible, so no.

Always makes me think of Best acronym in "F.E.A.R." by Ian Brown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fear_(song)

Released December 9, 2008

???

OK, nevermind. That's wrong.

i just checked and it doesnt seem to be in the noms thread. i quite like "chinese" fwiw. bump lily's thread

The Fear was released digitally in December, released in physical form in January.

put on should be top 10...

holding out some hope for "love story" in the top 10, but i really have no idea how broad the taylor swift appreciation is in the electorate.

(but if it's not on the list at all, jeeeeez)

I got into the Taylor Swift album like days after sending in my ballot :(

I voted for "Love Story," for what it's worth.

Do you not read this site?

― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, February 5, 2009 8:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^my exact reaction to all the "omg i had never heard that song before" people in here. baffling.

But then you might be oblivious to some of the indier and classic rockish threads, eh, Lex? A board divided...

People use ILM in different ways, I think. It's all good.

the theme of 20-11 seems to have been "i like this fine, but really, best of the year?" - the epitome of which is 'ready for the floor'. it's not bad but how little music must you have heard to even consider it in list-making time.

fussing over estelle's voice is the oddest path this thread has taken yet...though perhaps i've just been aware of how she sounds for ages, and how natural it is that someone w/her musical background would sound like that. it's about her casual airy swagger more than her technical chops - still think of her as an MC foremost, singer second.

i've never heard the aeroplane mgmt rmx! (not in position to now.) surely even they can't make it great, surely that is a sow's ear too far.

like 'love lockdown', glad we got it out of the way already. love aeroplane but hope that's it from them.

have resigned myself to the fact that 'i hate this part' isn't going to show up :((((

1. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (240 points)
2. T.I. - What You Know (172.5 points)

i'd forgotten this happened. idiot ilm!!!

knock 'em dead lex

"Electric Feel" by MGMT is the second best song they have done and i expect ILM to place "Time To Pretend" in the top 7. i love Cut Copy and Portishead was my favorite album from last year.

"skinny love" in the top 10, perhaps?

A+ job, musicallllly!!!

I became obsessed with "Put On" in time for this poll!

it's not bad but how little music must you have heard to even consider it in list-making time.

Dude that's a bit condescending. I voted for Ready For The Floor (fairly low, like around #18 or #20), but that 11-20 section does contain some of my favourite records of the year.

Actually I've just checked and I didn't vote for Ready For The Floor at all, but in a different mood I might have. Actually the vast majority of tracks I voted for didn't make the poll (like 17 of them) unless Trompeta or Calabria 2008 somehow manage to defy all logic and crash into the Top 10, but I'm not complaining about it. I mean, it's fairly obvious why most of these tracks are placing here - that's how consensus polls work and what you never seem to understand. Bongo Jam at #44 is enough for me really.

What with Single Ladies placing so low, is it possible that Britney might miss out on the Top 50 altogether?

Not sure if that's a rhetorical question, but I was under the assumption that the new Britney isn't particularly well liked, even by her fanbase.

Impression, rather than assumption. Poor choice of words.

Matt was there really a "Calabria 2008" or do you mean "Calabria 2007"? I'd approve if there was such a thing: that tune should be rereleased every year.

Yeah and Circus wasn't even on the album noms list. "Piece of Me" might make a surprise entry tho but I doubt it. xp

Tim - I don't know, I'm talking about the funky house version which I thought was from this year. Someone nominated it anyway so I voted for it, it may have actually been ineligible.

Also going back to my earlier point, this being ILM, individual lists are going to be more varied and esoteric than elsewhere, so areas of overlap are going to be fewer and smaller. Only 16 people voted for the #11 pick!

Maybe there was a funky house version, I haven't heard if so. The version I'm thinking of is just the dancehall-ish beat and a female MC chanting hypnotically. Apparently she died in a car crash? Sad if so.

Irritatingly the only version you hear on the radio here is the bootleg with Crystal Waters' "Destination Unknown", which turns the whole thing into regulation commercial radio house.

"Calabria 2007" and Calabria 2008" are the same record. They retitled it when it began taking off in the states early last year.

And yeah, Natasja died in a car accident. Awful.

:( That's terrible. I didn't hear it until this year (on a funky house comp funnily enough - it fits right in) but it was pretty much my favourite vocal performance, especially the "whoop whoop" bits.

not to be a dick but it takes a special kind of white person to make a beat as inept as the one in 'ready for the floor.'

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:52 (Yesterday)

totally fucking retarded post

I think I was Blackout's #1 cheerleader on ILM last year, but I can't really get enthusiastic about Circus.

Not to beat this particular point into the ground, but I'd be pretty disappointed if Forever didn't make the top 10

so...4 of my ballot have placed so far, can expect 2-3 more ('a milli', 'put on', maybe 'do you mind' or 'shawty get loose'). i guess it's a mark of how far removed ilx has become from dubstep that 'gully brook lane' (which is just a HUGE track within the genre) won't place.

'forever' won't place either, though if any chris brown deserves to it's 'with you'.

worst thing about these lists is realising how tiny one's niche actually is...like, the consensus hip-hop, r&b and uk garage tracks losing out to crap like mgmt and deerhunter. the confirmation that most people are happy to dabble in those waters but always run back to pfork indie. hip-hop and r&b should not be fucking niche genres ffs.

http://www.roflcat.com/images/cats/emo.jpg

you are so hilarious

did dubstep ever fare well in ILM EOY polls?

ILX has never had much of a connection to dubstep, the first few dubstep threads on ILM are mostly people comparing it unfavourably to UK garage or more often grime. Or just going "dubstep is fucking boring" which I believe you did Lex at one point. It's a minority concern in any case.

the consensus hip-hop, r&b and uk garage tracks losing out to crap like mgmt and deerhunter. the confirmation that most people are happy to dabble in those waters but always run back to pfork indie. hip-hop and r&b should not be fucking niche genres ffs.

Pretty sure that the top five will be dominated by hip-hop if I'm honest, and THAT'S THE BIT THAT MATTERS. The very (screamingly obvious) point I'm trying to make is that these polls only ever highlight areas of OVERLAP between a whole wealth of disparate tastes and disparate lists. Whereas you're second guessing everyone's individual lists from the overall shape of the poll (where your input is the same as everyone else's).

The big problem with consensus polls has always been that the interesting bits of everyone's tastes disappear and coalesce round focal points. That said there are 10 or 11 hip-hop and rnb tracks in this list already (that's A FUCKING QUARTER OF THE LIST) so I don't really get what you're whingeing about.

(Incidentally that's not even getting into the issue of Consensus Indie existing, which excludes a lot of the indie I enjoyed this year)

(I mean, it could be worse, you could be a metal, folk or country fan and have no representation in the list at all, and all three are less of a niche concern than dubstep)

Matt DC bringing some hardcore truth here.

yeah there was actually a separate metal poll because it's seen as so niche and isolated

Jeezy gotta be on this list

"Calabria 2007" and Calabria 2008" are the same record.

aye. i nominated and voted for the '08 title because i didn't hear it til sometime this year. (one of those things i discovered on mun2, bless its heart.) and r.i.p. natasja.

ILX has never had much of a connection to dubstep

for all i know this may be true but it's still funny to me because i probably wouldn't even know the phrase 'dubstep' if not for this board. still don't know what it means, actually.

Think Jeezy will either get two in the top ten or nothing at all. I can't imagine Put On and My President both not placing. Really surprised he hasn't showed up already actually.

Maybe the vote's just been spread thinly between the four tracks nominated :(

I didn't want to split the Jeezy vote so I went for both Circulate and Put On. No My President though, I didn't have enough space for all three. Sorry Jeezy :(